GOLD: Wesdome deep drilling at Kiena extends Deep A zone

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Longitudinal section of the Deep A zone at the Kiena gold mine. (Image: Wesdome Gold Mines)

QUEBEC – Toronto’s Wesdome Gold Mines is enjoying continued success as it chalks up more high grades from its exploration drilling program at the Kiena gold mine in Val d’Or. Focused on the Deep A zone, recent work has extended the zone both up and down plunge.

The Deep A zone has yielded the following highlights since the recent resource estimate:

The latest resource estimate was published in December 2018. The Deep A zone has 310,300 indicated tonnes at 9.95 g/t gold and 656,100 inferred tonnes at 11.43 g/t. Contained ounces are estimated at 99,300 and 241,100 oz., respectively.

For the entire Kiena complex, the measured and indicated resource is 1.0 million tonnes grading 6.38 g/t gold for 211.100 contained oz. The inferred portion is 968,900 tonnes at 9.28 g/t for 287,400 contained oz.

Readers will enjoy the January 2019 corporate presentation posted at www.Wesdome.com.